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Business Transformation

Can Your AI Even Pass Fifth Grade? Inside K12Vista’s Wake-Up Call.

Did You Know? A new benchmark called K12Vista recently assessed 40 of the world’s leading multimodal and text-only AI models (GPT-4o, Gemini 2-thinking, Qwen2.5-VL, InternVL 2.5, etc.) using the same...

Career

Upgrade the Humans!

Last week, we focused on how organizations aim to be agile (deliver the highest business value to end customers as early as possible, with the least amount of cost friction)...

Agility

Capacity First: The Sprint-Planning Hack Distributed Teams Swear By

Did you know…Effective sprint planning for distributed or hybrid teams hinges on a deceptively simple habit: translate every user-story estimate into a realistic capacity commitment for each individual. Full Scale’s...

Tips

Definition of Ready: Guardrail or Roadblock?

The Definition of Ready (DoR) is not an official Scrum artifact or prescribed term in the Scrum Guide. Still, it has become a widely adopted convention in Agile teams to...

Business Transformation

Behind the Blocks: How Nonces and Zero-Presence Proofs are Reshaping Trust

Did you know...The concept of a “nonce" (short for "number used once") is fundamental to cryptography, blockchain security, and modern authentication systems. As discussed in Dataconomy’s recent article, nonces support...

Business Transformation

From Model to Money: Turning GPU Burn into Business Value

Did you know…Meta’s AI infra group treats large-language model (LLM) serving like a distributed operating system. In a recent InfoQ talk, Ye (Charlotte) Qi unpacked the four make-or-break challenges that...

Business Transformation

Signing, Sealing, Delivering: How PGP Future-Proofs Your Data Strategy

Did you know…Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) started in 1991 as a grassroots response to growing email privacy concerns and has since evolved into the gold standard for hybrid public/private key...

Business Transformation

Why Fine-Tuning Fails: The Case for Semantic Catalogs and Validation Loops

Did you know…Timescale’s engineering team showed that watching how skilled analysts write SQL can unlock far more reliable text-to-SQL agents. By capturing the human workflow in a Semantic Catalog that...